PLEASURE aka KARNATAKA
It has been two days since i have left hospet-karnataka....but i am still intoxicated with exhiliration!!!!!it did leave me enchanted....specially the history,hidden secrets and the locales!!!
well when we were starting,our uncle handed over a little piece of paper with a map on it...n for me cartography is what cartoon is for a kid..:)n so i was brimming with excitement!!
so our journey started with all of us trying to decipher the route map,planning halts and speculating on our time of reaching the destination....
on reaching the borders of karnataka[i could make out by the boards written in kannada!!]it was a pure feeling of nascence for me...the route was a stretch of greenery..fields were endless coming up like a glissando...in a word..it was ENTHRALLING!when we reached our cousin's place it was almost ten in the night...and as i stepped down from the car i felt the breeze ruffling my hair n it dawned upon like a perfect welcome....it was a sharp realization of the difference between the conditioned air in the car n nature's glory.........
next day morning we headed towards an historical plac called "HAMPI"...it was the capital city of the vijaynagara empire which flourished way back in 1565.....every stone there has a story to tell...every temple there holds a plethora of secrets...every path taken leads to an irrefutable heritage........how i wailed in my heart for a chance to time travel...to unravel the mysteries of hampi.....to witness the grandeur of ancient India...the history enscounced there left me awe struck!!!that place is an ode to the indian architecture.......a must see....
then our journey was towards TUNGABHADRA DAM...it is an obscure fact which i want to bring to light that it is the only dam which has the largest number of gates...that is 33...built in 1940-1942...it was the brainchild of a legendary engineer THIRUMALE AYYANGAR.......the water of the river appears mellow but as it reaches the gates the flow becomes very rapid...the push of the water is just amazing!!!my acrophobia did not stop me from noticing all this...it was scintillating!! the dam is a tribute to engineering and a herald of Indian ingenuity.....
well i was in hospet for my cousin's engagement and it happens to unite two families which embraced the culmination of cultures with open arms.......their house ignited the adventurous streaks in me and i wanted to embark on exploring the terraincognito but sadly we were short of TIME..and we started our return journey.....
karnataka is a very homely place...very inviting..enticing..and very very beautiful!it is truly a world of its own...i certainly would want to go back and discover the other places and see its full glory...but for now i will resign myself to the amazement encompassing me...and yeah start working up my brains for the formula to invent a time machine:P!!lol!!
P.S-if you did invent get it patented or i might be in the soup for plagiarism!!!;);)
this is my encounter with the beauty of karnataka.....i know many of you out there would be having the same passion for some place apart from the city you live in...let it out..that place deserves our attention............................................
though it was a greatttttt trip i have to add that i missed the sweetest people in my life a lotttt!!!! wanna say i love you!!!n i missed you a lotttt!!!